[Pkg-openssl-devel] Bug#878303: genrsa manpage suggests using 1024 bit keys
Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
sebastian at breakpoint.cc
Thu Oct 26 19:34:16 UTC 2017
control: forwarded -1 https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/4547
On 2017-10-13 14:15:13 [+0100], Toni Mueller wrote:
> Hi Sebastian,
Hi Toni,
> that's also one way to go about it, but while we are at it, can we
> change the "should" to a "must"?
The chapter just vanished. See the pull req.
> Or can the software actually generate
> primes which are even smaller than 64 bits?
technically yes.
> And what would be the
> applicability of such small keys, anyway?
Education I guess. So I used to do RSA with a pen, paper and a
calculator while learning these kind of things :)
>
> Cheers,
> --Toni++
Sebastian
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